Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

And, of course there is still Salesforce.com, as well as the developing realm of free and open source options, like CiviCRM. Update: Allan Benamer has some more information that’s worth reading. { Update: Allan Benamer has some more information that’s worth reading. { 2 Anonymous 06.13.08 2 Anonymous 06.13.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 20, 2008

Google says: “Google Health aims to solve an urgent need that dovetails with our overall mission of organizing patient information and making it accessible and useful. Through our health offering, our users will be empowered to collect, store, and manage their own medical records online.&# Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

In a huge agreement , Microsoft agreed to share information about Windows to the Samba project, so that it can keep up to date easily. So next year, I’ll be doing 100 posts on particular free and open source tools. Many nonprofits have Linux file servers in their back offices. This was to appease the European Commission.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

’&# She gives some great suggestions and examples Joanne Fritz talks about three big mistakes – outdated information, insufficient contact information, and outdated design. She makes some great points, and gives good tips to make changes. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

I’ll be watching the Open Handset Alliance, and wondering when I can replace my Blackberry with an open phone. { I’ll be watching the Open Handset Alliance, and wondering when I can replace my Blackberry with an open phone. { This is big. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

It’s being billed as the “easiest database&# and I pretty much have to agree. Basically, they partner with localized web media outlets, and provide widgets that contain information about local nonprofits that are connected to content. Have a look at the demo. Watch the demo. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

There are substantive conversations that happen, and real information gets shared. There seemed (to me) to finally enough interesting people and things to follow on twitter – it began to seem like microblogging was more that just about what kind of tuna sandwich someone was eating (although it sometimes still is that.) Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

It’s chock-full of information about what you need to start, different strategies, and potential pitfalls. My favorite quote: “A mutual understanding between the nonprofit organization and the database implementer that converting a database involves organizational change, and this can be stressful and threatening for employees.

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MARCH 12, 2007

It’s chock-full of information about what you need to start, different strategies, and potential pitfalls. My favorite quote: “A mutual understanding between the nonprofit organization and the database implementer that converting a database involves organizational change, and this can be stressful and threatening for employees.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

It is important to understand that Rapleaf is just gathering public information on people, based on their email addresses. It is an inevitable result of our desire for social networks, as well as our desire for information to be portable (like in RSS feeds.) How do we know? How can we assure privacy? Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

Also, one of the things I do is blog – so I regularly have to process and digest information to write decent blog posts. As Jack said, it is helpful and important for someone to be informed, but we don’t have a real need for an expert (yet). We’re just not there yet. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

I’m excited about this project – it’s gathering the knowledge and expertise of a great group of folks, and it will provide a free source of information and case studies so that nonprofits can best figure out how to step into the frothy waters of social networks. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

The site is beautifully designed, and engaging, with some good information and tools, as well. In fact, we agreed we are getting toward overload – too much information in too many places. OK, so here is yet another website providing information that nonprofits need to be sustainable. " I love the idea, really, I do.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application. The free sharing of information in ways that allow for new innovation. services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends. But I have a first take.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk. As a quick comparative look between a small number of open source systems, it’s hard to argue that it contributes no information. More on that in a bit.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

We all talk about information overload. Give me tools, like Yahoo Pipes , or other kinds of things, that help me to whittle down the information I’m taking in – make it more useful, help me find things faster and easier. And then there is data. I love my friends and colleagues. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Like getting underneath the surface issues of the recent CRM vendor mergers, or getting underneath issues relating to open source software. I don’t think I live up to that quite as well as I’d like, given my preference for open source solutions. You can see it at [link] Thanks for writing! Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Most often nonprofits want to capture information from web users. That sort of information could be a newsletter sign up, a contact form that should be responded to, an online donation or an event registration. One purpose is to allow users to modify their own information (if the site allows logins.) 7 Jon Stahl 01.20.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I started to do databases for organizations, and then, in 1999, I flew headlong into web application development, which became my specialty and mainstay until I took a break to go to seminary in 2005. I put in a few networks in the late ’90s (ugh, really, I pulled cable.) I stumbled a fair bit along the way.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

But for a long while, it took a lot to gather all of that information. The effects could be disastrous if someone got their hands on that information. we do take feedback seriously and try to add any other information possible to make it clear to people that an email will be generated to the user you are requesting trust from.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Thanks for any information you can provide. I forgot to check the date! Can you tell me then, since you’re using Google, how you can arrange the settings to ignore your own visits to your blog? 4 admin 08.05.09 at 9:33 am I’ve never tried it, but here’s the answer: [link] 5 Dru 08.05.09 at 9:46 am Thank you so much!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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APRIL 10, 2008

at 12:02 am Two use cases where I think Twitter makes a lot of sense: 1) disaster and emergency situations and 2) direct action/civil disobedience organizing where distributed and decentralized communications can be very helpful in reacting quickly to new information. 3 Seth Schneider 04.15.08 4 James Young 04.15.08 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I wrote a blogging module into my web database project, Xina, more than 4 years ago. 3) keep stakeholders informed? So, here’s the post about Blogs, and their follow ons: podcasting and vlogging. Blogging is old hat. I’ve been doing blogging for almost 4 years now. Should staff of a nonprofit blog? Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

at 9:17 am Thanks for this informative article! Those two things — adding itmes FAST — and the ability to have presentation of the items that integrates with my main communication tools (in my case, my blog and my main RSS feed) are key to a good social bookmarking tool. 3 Beth 09.27.06 4 Michelle 09.27.06 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It’s fairly easy to extrapolate that even with the poorest of clients, we’re seeing web adoption especially as traditional sources of information for job and apartment listings leave print media. You cannot use the digital divide as a fig leaf over open site statistics anymore. That dog won’t hunt.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “Open Source Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago. No one would think that anyone thought that implementing open source software was without cost.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 23, 2007

So I’ve been thinking a lot about the role of free and open source software in environmentally sustainable computing. Sometime in September, NOSI will be releasing the new version of the primer on open source software for nonprofits. I’ll be announcing it, for sure. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

" There is no question that technology in general has created sea changes in the ways in which organizations get and use information, reach donors and constituents, create campaigns, etc. " One of the things I said to Beth was: I have to admit to some hesitance even thinking about a phrase like "Tagging to make social change."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

It has allowed me to be proactive in working with them on technology, and incredibly informative in helping future planning. In the past, for me, my ongoing support relationships with clients have been the way that I have learned the most about their organizations. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

The new journal, the Journal of Information Technology in Social Change , is, I think, a needed part of our landscape of resources for the sector. Open Access publishing therefore leads to wider dissemination of information and increased efficiency in science … Which is, actually, a very practical down to earth argument.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

We use that information only to connect TimeBridge to Google. In the meantime, I can assure you that we are very serious about maintaining your privacy even if you have shared your Google ID & password with TimeBridge. Under no circumstance do we share your ID and password with anyone or any other service. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

depends largely on two things: open standards, and open source software. which is as technically transparent and open as it hopefully will be in actuality. Open Source software and open standards are the foundations of Web 2.0. It allowed people to get involved and helped motivate. Well, Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

He basically starts out with asking what is the most efficient way of producing information, in the sense of the greater good. Basically, the most efficient for society’s greater welfare is if everyone gave information away for the cost of distribution only. " This is, in fact, a critical issue.

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